How To Install cli-common-dev on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install cli-common-dev on Kali Linux. cli-common-dev is common files for building CLI packages

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install cli-common-dev on Kali Linux.

What is cli-common-dev

This package must be installed if a CLI (Common Language Infrastructure) packaging environment is desired.

It includes debhelper scripts for managing automatic dependency tracking between native libraries, CLI libraries and CLI applications:

  • dh_clideps to generate cli:Depends information for debian/control
  • dh_makeclilibs to create clilibs files that are needed/used by dh_clideps
  • dh_installcligac to register assemblies to be late installed into a GAC
  • dh_cligacpolicy to create and install the policy files into a GAC
  • dh_clifixperms to fix permissions of files in CLI package build directories
  • dh_clistrip to strip CLI debug symbols from package build directories

There are three ways to install cli-common-dev on Kali Linux . We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install cli-common-dev Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install cli-common-dev using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install cli-common-dev

Install cli-common-dev Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install cli-common-dev using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install cli-common-dev

Install cli-common-dev Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install cli-common-dev using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install cli-common-dev

How To Uninstall cli-common-dev on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the cli-common-dev package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove cli-common-dev

Uninstall cli-common-dev And Its Dependencies

To uninstall cli-common-dev and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove cli-common-dev

Remove cli-common-dev Configurations and Data

To remove cli-common-dev configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge cli-common-dev

Remove cli-common-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove cli-common-dev configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge cli-common-dev

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install cli-common-dev using different package management tools like apt, apt-get and aptitude.